Asylum
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Short description
A young psychiatrist arrives at a remote mental institution hoping to be hired. Instead of a conventional interview, he is set a test: he must speak with several patients and work out which of them is the doctor who once ran the hospital and now lives among the inmates. As the patients recount their pasts, their stories turn to murder, revenge and the supernatural.
The film is an anthology-style horror produced by Amicus Productions, the British studio known for its portmanteau films. Roy Ward Baker directed it, placing it in the middle of a run of genre pictures he made around the turn of the 1970s, after The Vampire Lovers and Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde and before The Vault of Horror. Robert Bloch, the writer behind Psycho, wrote the screenplay. The cast includes Peter Cushing, Patrick Magee, Herbert Lom, Britt Ekland, Barry Morse and Charlotte Rampling.
Asylum was released in November 1972 and runs 88 minutes. It holds a 6.5 rating on IMDb from about 9,100 votes and a 6 on TMDB from roughly 200 votes, while a critics' rating of 6.8 from 13 reviews sits slightly above the audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- The scene featuring Herbert Lom was filmed in half a day.
- All scenes with Peter Cushing were filmed in two days.
- Filming began in April 1972 and lasted 24 days, and just 15 weeks later the film appeared in cinemas.
- Arthur Grant was supposed to be the cinematographer for this film, but three weeks before filming he learned he was incurably ill and left the project. He was replaced by Dennis N. Coop.
- In an interview, Richard Todd said he regretted appearing in this film.
- Vermicelli was used as the robots' innards.
- Spike Milligan could have played a role in this film, but left the project before filming began, and the role went to Jeffrey Bayldon.
- In the scene where the tailor's landlord holds the rent book, it appears in the other hand after a shot change.
- In the first story, when showing the moving parts of a dismembered corpse, you can notice two right hands. One crawls across the floor, and the other towards Bonnie's face.
- In the shot where Bonnie is chased by a severed hand, one of the crew members can be seen holding the hand and making it move.
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